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A brave and unnerving debut collection about life in wartime
In 1991 a war began in Yugoslavia that would last four years and claim more than a quarter of a million lives. In her harrowing fiction debut, Courtney Angela Brkic puts a human face on the lost, the missing, the exiled, and the invisible. She brings to life perpetrators and victims, soldiers and civilians, diplomats and human rights workers: a man trapped in a cellar witnesses the erasure...
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Set in a city where gods are omnipresent, privacy is elusive, and family defines identity, these are stories of men and women caught between their own needs and the demands of their society and culture. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute. Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction.
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Ancestors and Others collects selected stories from the legendary southern writer, Fred Chappell
In this collection, Fred Chappell shows his mastery across a range of genres. Featuring folk fables in the Twain tradition, realistic stories of growing up in remote Appalachia, stories of family, kin, and community, and tales of the fantastic and spooky, this book will delight fans and surprise new readers.
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¿Has sentido miedo irracional?, ¿que la impotencia te supera? La salida está cerrada o nuestra mente nos hace creer que está bloqueada, pero el cerrojo está en tu esencia y la llave en tu autoconocimiento. La descarga es a veces la más sencilla herramienta y parece fácil, lo difícil es escucharla sin juzgar.
El cerebro es un músculo entrenable y redondo como un mundo, por lo que puedes hacer que tus miedos giren en espiral y, con efecto...
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In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays, the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.
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Todtraurig, lächerlich, aber auch bösartig sehen sich die Männer in Wolfram Hirches "Männerherzen" im Lebenskampf, aber natürlich auch den Frauen ausgeliefert, vor denen es kein Entrinnen gibt. Egal, ob die frisch Geliebte auf "Refertilisation" besteht, der Skipper verloren geht oder Mutti kaum noch hinhört, wenn der Sohn ihr das Scheitern seiner Chirurgenkarriere beichtet.
Wolfram Hirche beweist, dass dem Mann einfach nicht zu helfen ist!
28) My Lord's Lady
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For a Lord and a Lady, familiarity breeds contempt-and they are about to get very familiar.
Brought together at the start of the London social season, Lady Georgina and Lord Vane are immediately at odds. The Lord's cool countenance annoys Georgina to no end, while Lord Vane has no desire for his orderly routine to be upended by the passionate Lady Georgina. Forced together while under quarantine, will they overcome their mutual dislike? Are they...
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Leer a Eloy Tizón es adentrarse en el mejor cuento español contemporáneo por la puerta grande. Con esta premisa, Plegaria para pirómanos conjuga como ningún otro libro del autor el hallazgo y la epifanía de su estilo único e inconfundible con la ruptura de lo establecido en el género y la indagación de otros principios. Nueve cuentos entrelazados por los destellos breves, por las ausencias perennes, por el afán cotidiano, por la búsqueda...
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For many years, author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century-not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured souls of people long since passed away. Using these brief messages of real people from another age, Butler here creates fully imagined stories that speak to the universal human condition.
In "Up by Heart," a Tennessee miner is called...
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The stories in John Fulton's striking debut collection are set in cars, laundromats, motels, ranch houses, and roadside diners, where his characters struggle with and against the demands of family loyalty, love, loss, and sexual desire. A teenage girl attempts to lose her virginity while her mother dies at home; a middle-aged Casanova passes himself off as Barry Manilow, much to the distress of his soon-to-be-fourth wife; and two young boys accompany...
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The words "inimitable" and "unique" are bandied about too often in artistic circles, so much so that critics seem to have forgotten those words were invented to describe Howard Waldrop's fiction.
Waldrop's mastery of arcane knowledge, his transcendent wit, and the way his stories explode like cheerty bombs inside a reader's mind have all made Howard Waldrop one of the most beloved writers of the past two decades. Readers who encounter his work never...
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As a schoolboy, Dr. Meiksins's stories were always published in the school's newspaper. In his professional life as well as in his layman's life, Dr. Meiksin had surprising, intriguing, and inspiring experiences that he likes to share with his readers. Life does not end with retirement; revenge is sweet; life does not always work out as planned. Although the stories are all fiction, they are tailored after real-life events.
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In celebration of Jeffrey Archer's latest short story collection, And Thereby Hangs a Tale, St. Martin's Press sponsored the "Jeffrey Archer Presents" Short Story Competition. #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of the short story Jeffrey Archer is known for the precise wit and timely revelations in his tales, and now with this short story competition he has had the opportunity to recognize those same outstanding gifts in winner Mark Trainer's...
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In this collection of short stories, Mumtaz Hussain delves into a diverse range of thought-provoking themes. Through the art of storytelling, he explores the intricacies of human experiences, from the profound influence of painting to the complexities of faith and extremism. Delving into the depths of the mind, he unravels the mysteries of sexuality and its interplay with the human psyche. Moreover, he examines the clash of cultures and civilizations,...
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Tom Mahoney is the golden boy everyone knew in school: good-looking, charming, an athlete, sought after by women, the envy of men. His success in life seems a foregone conclusion. In The Appearance of a Hero, Tom navigates the passage into adulthood, his story chronicled from every perspective but his own.
Tom crisscrosses the country in search of direction, affecting the lives of everyone he meets. The recounting of his illicit affair with an older...
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This highly entertaining book, 'Omar the Perfume Seller and other Fantastical Stories', is an often tongue-in-cheek, always affectionate, homage to fantasy tales. 'Omar the Perfume Seller' is a cautionary tale that examines the consequences of upsetting a powerful Djinn; 'Say it with Flowers' is a detective story/ murder mystery with a twist, set in an alternative Britain; 'The Kidnap Kaper' is a noir-type story in which a 'hard-boiled' private eye...
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The Xuan continent, the weak are strong, the strong are dominant, the weak are at the mercy of others, and cultivation is measured by the qualification of the spiritual veins, Luo Ning opened the inheritance of "Heavenly Xuan Vein Creation Skill", and the qualification of the spiritual veins has evolved infinitely since then!
39) El honor
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Escritora y periodista española, Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851- 1921), es considerada como una de las novelistas clave en el realismo y el naturalismo español del siglo XIX y principios del XX. No solo fue un referente literario, sino que su defensa de los derechos de la mujer la convirtió en una de las primeras feministas españolas. Fue la lectura de Emile Zola uno de los impulsos decisivos para que Pardo Bazán desarrollase una fecundísima carrera...
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Big brother said that when I was born in the shadow, I was born to deal with the dead. I was born with Yin and Yang eyes, and I have learned a few mystical skills, and I can handle ordinary children. But one day, I met a thing that I don't know whether it is a person or a ghost, this thing is handsome and extraordinary, but it insisted on pegging me to marry him
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